Bharti Airtel Limited has deployed 4G Advanced technology in Mumbai in order to provide a superior 4G experience for Airtel customers. This is planned to be achieved through considerably faster data speeds and better coverage – indoors and outdoors. Customers with mobile devices that support 4G Advanced will be able to get 4G data speeds of up to 135 Mbps.
In May 2015, Airtel launched its 4G services in Mumbai on the 2300 Mhz band using the TD LTE standard and recently added capacity on the 1800 Mhz band using FD LTE. With the rollout, Mumbai will be among the few cities globally to have high-speed data services over 4G Advanced. Under the carrier aggregation deployment, the capacities of TD LTE (2300 MHz spectrum band) and FD LTE (1800 MHz spectrum band) have been combined to enable better spectrum utilisation and efficiency. India’s first carrier aggregation was deployed in February 2016 in Kerala and the network achieved 4G data speeds of up to 135 Mbps on commercially available mobile devices.
The deployment is a part of Airtel’s ongoing network transformation program – Project Leap, under which Airtel plans to invest Rs 60,000 crores over the next three years to meet the growing demand of voice and high-speed data services in India and deliver the best network experience to its customers.
According to Ajai Puri, Director – Operations (India & South Asia), Bharti Airtel, the company has consistently been ahead of the curve when it comes to innovation and technology deployment, in order to deliver a superior mobile experience to its customers. Airtel has led the rollout of 4G services in India and with the deployment of 4G Advanced, they are taking a quantum leap in delivering a superior mobile broadband experience to their customers. He further added that with the additional network capacity, customers in Mumbai can look forward considerably improved data speeds and better coverage. Airtel will extend the deployment of 4G Advanced in other geographies in the coming months.